Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-23

"a hy electricity, when completed, and
lighted il will he an ornamental. imposing
aud digni6ed structure vi which tie city
II ~ be proud.
OalY partial description caH he given
at present OF the DECORATIONS rs none are
yet completed.
GENERAL. DECORATIONS.
The Public Library is handsomely deco
rated. In each window there are tweiN,
flags, two large flags being IN tae bottom
OF the window, and each succeeding pan
liminisncS u- they near the top. HtsldeS
rhcsr, the.c is also hunting stretched from
window to window. ,..
The Custom House is dressing itself ioE
the Reunion by putting out four very large
faga and three small ones in each WINDOW.
IN the windows of the City Hall are
bows, in which are large flags alternating
with small ones Many OF the flags which
have been sent for by the authorities have
not vet arrived. The City Hall, when
completed, will be one OF the most ARTIST
cally decorated buildings in the city.
THE SOLDIERS MONUMENT
besides being cleaned and otherwise oTna-
ueuted. has extending yard beyond the
head OF the Goddess OF Liberty large
pipr to be lighted by natural gas
On Market street from the bridge to
Tenth nearly every business and private
house has commenced To decorate, hut the
more noticeable ones are Hess drug store,
Srbnepls drug store, JU1. Emshcimer, II.
l.. Loos, Mcclure House office aud Washing
ton Hall. Mrs. Xicgenieldcr and w hetllng
Bakery Company have neatly and tasteful
IL decorated their places with flags ana
bunting, and also a streamcr OF ilagS across
the street. The Senate saloon, lleIly =,
Union, Bicdenbach, City Hall, and III Tact
most all the saloons secuted to have spare"
neither time nor money in decorating Their
places.
one of the Gne>t displays is ut the
Phoenix saloon, un Twelfth street. Among
the "iiNin'S' A,e has prepared IL a hand
some uICkel-plated cannon, which VIII he
heard from at intervals.
Dave Guudling has probably the hnesl
display OF all nj his Twelfth street place oI
business The sidewalk was crowded with
people until late hour, taking IN the hne
display.
Scheuck y Sons have uut large, hnr
tlag, and from their house another hand
some llag Is stretched to Kennedy 5 saloon.
On Main street Int few houses were dec
grated ia the afternoon.
Geo. X. Taylor aud henry Jacobs are
handsomely decorated with superior
quality uI goodS
SpeyerS aud John,ou's were the iilst ON
this street To show their vulor7.
The most
ATTRACTIVE DECORATIONS
will probably lie on Twelfth, as every
place of business hJ~ begun 10 decorate.
and many with the handsome G. \. X.
llugs
\ neat and cheap WY of decorating
your house is by putting evergreen trees
about the door or along the curhStonc; II
evergreen is not accessible, vet hrmlock,
beech. birch, maple; any green branches
look well
Let every body decorate this morning
Put out big llIgs, hut il you nave no b.;
lla,a- nut out little ones. II you have
none, borrow some; If that is impossible,
turn your coat inside-out, and hang 1t out.
HANG SOMETHING OFT
and let the people know somebody Is living
in the house.
Decorations have an exciting effect and
# We are not excited, We will not Ice able
To stand it during the Reunion. The
decorations 81 far have already accelerated
the speed of the little boy, loOSeneu the
.,.,,..J chords r,rlllinv both pleasant and
unpleasant memories otthc recent difficult
ty. ReSldeS producing such effects,
We must rrmeuhcr that more people are
to he with u than ever have been in
Wheeling before.